The Daily Broadside

Friday! The end of the line.... this week.

Posted on 11/13/2020 5.00 AM

JCM 11/8/2020 8:47:37 PM


Posted by: JCM

Kosh's Shadow 11/13/2020 5:06:59 AM
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For those who were not at the pub, please keep BabbaZee's BF in your prayers.

I'll copy and paste her email in the Frontier.

Note she won't see replies there since she forgot her password and doesn't have the time to reset it at the moment, but I put details there for privacy.

vxbush 11/13/2020 5:50:15 AM
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In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: Note she won't see replies there since she forgot her password and doesn't have the time to reset it at the moment, but I put details there for privacy.

Kosh, thanks for sharing that. That does sound serious. Many prayers for BZ and her boyfriend; may they be held close by God. 

buzzsawmonkey 11/13/2020 6:05:30 AM
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The Charge of the Light Worker
---apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Half a bill, half a bill,
Hundreds of billions,
To the fiscal cliff of Debt---
Now sixteen trillion. 
"Forward!" Light Worker said,
"Charge what we want!" he said
On the fiscal cliff of Debt,
Now sixteen trillion. 

"Forward!" Light Worker said
"Though we're deeply in the red,
I'm doing what I said
When I thrilled millions:
The Treasury my "stash,"
Green energy plans rash,
Billions in crony cash,
Off the fiscal cliff of Debt,
Now sixteen trillion."

"Regulate industry,
Depress the economy,
Create false scarcity,
Cut back oil drilling.
Let entitlements swell;
Make our defense a shell;
Into the jaws of Debt---
How great? no one can tell---
Now sixteen trillion."

Flush'd down fed'ral programs,
Flush'd down his healthcare scam,
Threat'ning with the taxman
Any who would protest
His road to ruin.
Heedless and unafraid,
The press acting to aid
Dissimulation
His plans had long been laid
The land to do in;
The bill came back much more
Than sixteen trillion. 

"Regulate industry,
Depress the economy,
Create false scarcity,
Cut back oil drilling.
Let entitlements swell---"
That's how a nation fell,
Freedoms tossed down a well,
Into a maw of Debt
How great, no one can tell
All we know is that it's
Now sixteen trillion.

Would we were as we were
Ere half the land preferred
Public trough swilling.
What a profound error
To let the Light Worker
Squander our trillions! 


lucius septimius 11/13/2020 6:31:17 AM
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Packing, cleaning, washing ... hopefully I can get on the road in an hour or so.  My bizarre vacation is (mostly) at an end.
doppelganglander 11/13/2020 6:41:24 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

Keeping Babba Zee and M in my prayers.

On a positive note, my daughter-in-law is recovering well and should be going home this afternoon. 

doppelganglander 11/13/2020 6:46:42 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 4:

Safe travels. Remember it's Friday the 13th. In 2020.

lucius septimius 11/13/2020 6:50:57 AM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 6:

I'm fully expecting to be struck by a meteor.

doppelganglander 11/13/2020 6:57:27 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 7:

Unlikely. SMOD is just a tease.

doppelganglander 11/13/2020 6:58:54 AM
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In #5 doppelganglander said: On a positive note, my daughter-in-law is recovering well and should be going home this afternoon. 

Also, she tested negative for Covid. 

lucius septimius 11/13/2020 7:09:29 AM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 9: 

Well that's some good news.

Occasional Reader 11/13/2020 8:02:15 AM
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In #5 doppelganglander said: On a positive note, my daughter-in-law is recovering well and should be going home this afternoon. 

Very glad to hear it.

Occasional Reader 11/13/2020 8:05:15 AM
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My thoughts with BZ snd her BF.
Occasional Reader 11/13/2020 8:06:06 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 4:

Given how this vacation has gone, I think it’s a safe bet that during the drive home, your car will break down in cannibal hillbilly territory.


vxbush 11/13/2020 8:20:24 AM
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In #5 doppelganglander said: On a positive note, my daughter-in-law is recovering well and should be going home this afternoon. 

Oh, excellent news! 


In #13 Occasional Reader said: Given how this vacation has gone, I think it’s a safe bet that during the drive home, your car will break down in cannibal hillbilly territory.

Oh, I hope not!!!! 

vxbush 11/13/2020 9:03:49 AM
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And we've been told at work (again) that only essential people should be at work only for essential tasks that cannot be done remotely. Sigh. This has become incredibly stupid and unscientific. I listened to a podcast with Mark Rippletoe and William Briggs, the latter who has cowritten a book with two other contributors about the stupidity of the way the public health groups have managed the SARS-COV-2 virus. 
Kosh's Shadow 11/13/2020 9:12:22 AM
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In #13 Occasional Reader said: I think it’s a safe bet that during the drive home, your car will break down in cannibal hillbilly territory.

Cue the dueling banjos

Kosh's Shadow 11/13/2020 9:13:28 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 15:

I wonder what we are not being told, based on the extent where I work has gone for COVID control

vxbush 11/13/2020 9:37:56 AM
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In #17 Kosh's Shadow said: I wonder what we are not being told, based on the extent where I work has gone for COVID control

Other countries are basing their reactions on what the US is doing, and the thinking all along has been exactly this: what aren't they telling us? That seems like a really shabby way to make decisions. 

However, if it really were that bad, then why are liberals in government positions still allowing protests and celebrations for Biden? Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, said folks should be at home--and she promptly flew to Delaware with a delegation to attend Biden's announcement party. That doesn't make any sense at all if there really is something that they aren't telling us. 

While yes, we know the elderly are susceptible, and those who are younger might have really bad symptoms, we have a much better idea how to treat this virus than we did back in the spring. The number of people who have died from this has dropped a lot, and the so called "cases" are being called cases, but seem to only be positive test results from a PCR test that is way, WAY too sensitive. Briggs talked about that in the podcast. This is starting to remind me that sometimes the emperor doesn't really have any new clothes but is butt naked.

Occasional Reader 11/13/2020 9:45:05 AM
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In #17 Kosh's Shadow said: I wonder what we are not being told

At this point there is so much research being done on this in parallel by unrelated entities, I think it would be very hard to keep some great big secret about it.

vxbush 11/13/2020 10:00:59 AM
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In #19 Occasional Reader said: At this point there is so much research being done on this in parallel by unrelated entities, I think it would be very hard to keep some great big secret about it.

Talk about epic timing: Sundance has posted a new article on exactly this issue--why is COVID-19 being hyped when it isn't that serious? COVID-19 is the Agenda--Biden is the Delivery Vehicle

Reading it, it sounds like a rabid conspiracy theory. Except Sundance has been spot on with his research on the Russia Collusion allegations, the elections, and just about everything else I've read from him. Don't just ignore this because it sounds far-fetched. 

JCM 11/13/2020 10:32:28 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 20:

Sounds like rabid conspiracy theory.

However the COVID response to date has been irrational, unscientific and fraught with proven fraudulent numbers to bolster the response.

Add in the election debacle.

You've got the stuff of a dystopian novel... in real life.

lucius septimius 11/13/2020 1:02:47 PM
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In #13 Occasional Reader said: cannibal hillbilly territory.

Well the part of the trip where that would be a danger brings me past where Dianna lives, so I can always call for aid.

Kosh's Shadow 11/13/2020 1:15:31 PM
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In #22 lucius septimius said: Well the part of the trip where that would be a danger brings me past where Dianna lives, so I can always call for aid.

Because a squirrel carrying a violin case gets some respect.

Occasional Reader 11/13/2020 2:11:30 PM
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In #22 lucius septimius said: Well the part of the trip where that would be a danger brings me past where Dianna lives, so I can always call for aid.

Yeah, that would work.... UNLESS SHE'S ONE OF THEM

PaladinPhil 11/13/2020 3:46:18 PM
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In #24 Occasional Reader said: . UNLESS SHE'S ONE OF THEM

RLF? (Rodent Liberation Front...)



Kosh's Shadow 11/13/2020 4:56:43 PM
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Reply to PaladinPhil in 25:

SLA - Squirrelyboneses Liberation Army


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